Indira Mahajan (Soprano)
Indira Mahajan holds a Master of Music from Mannes College of Music, a
diploma from the Accademia Musicale Ottorino Resphighi, and a Bachelor of Arts
from Oberlin College. She is the 2008 winner of the prestigious Marian Anderson
Award and was subsequently presented in a solo recital at the Kennedy Center
last season. In addition to her award from the Dallas Opera, the soprano was
named New York City Opera’s Debut Artist of the Year and has received the
Richard F. Gold Award from the Shoshanna Foundation as well as prizes from the
Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation, Van Lier Foundation, and the National
Association for Negro Musicians.
She has performed her celebrated characterization of Bess in Porgy in
Bess with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe
Verdi, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and at the Teatro del
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Last season, she sang the work with the in a return
to Washington National Opera and with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Marin Alsop, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Perez Galdуs in Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, and Teatro Messimo Bellini in Catania. As one of the premiere
interpreters of Bess, she has also sung the role with Los Angeles Opera, in a
return to Dallas Opera, and previously with Washington National Opera. Equally
sought after in Europe, she has sung performances of Porgy and Bess at the Opera
Comique in Paris, Staatsoper Hannover, Opera Frankfurt, Deutsches Theater
Mьnchen, Koninklijk Theater Carre in Amsterdam, Congress Centrum Hamburg, among
many other opera houses.
Recent performances include Cio-Cio San in
Madama Butterfly, Mimi in Francesca Zambello’s production of La
Bohиme at London’s Royal Albert Hall; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni,
Nedda in Pagliacci, Musetta in La Bohиme with Dallas Opera, for
which she received the Maria Callas Debut Award as outstanding debut artist; the
title role in Suor Angelica. Her oratorio performances include Handel’s
Messiah with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Sioux City Symphony,
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas
and Beethoven’s Mass in C with Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional in Costa Rica. Ms.
Mahajan’s concert experience encompasses the music of Gershwin.
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